Improvement in cant-hooks



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

ELISHA BROAD, OF ST. ANTHONYS FALLS, MINNESOTA.

IMVPROVEIIVIENT IN CANT-HOOKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 73,075, dated January7, 1568; antedated July 8, 1867.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELISHA BROAD, of St. Anthonys Falls, in vthe countyof Hennepin, and in the State of Minnesota, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Gant- Hooks; and do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon.

In the annexed drawings, A represents a handle, which is constructed inany of the known and usual ways, and provided at one end with afour-cornered pointed spike, B. a (0 represent the ferrules or bandswhich slip over the end of the handle to prevent it from splitting.

0 represents the hook, which has its point made round, heavy. at itsbase, and with a sudden or short taper. The base of the point is madesquare, so as to prevent it from entering the log too deep and beinghardto draw out.

D represents a metallic plate, which has two ears or wings, betweenwhich one end of the hook O is pivoted. A flange, as seen at a: 00, isformed across the ends of the ears 0 0, which act as stops to preventthe hook from falling too far forward or backward. Two bolts, cl (1,pass through the plate D, through the handle, and through a plate, E,

and are secured by means of nuts upon their ends. By means of thesebolts the plate D may be securely attached to the handle A, and may bekept confined to it, when the handle shrinks, by screwing up the nuts onbolts d cl. The back-stop of plate D keeps the hook G in proper positionfor striking at the log the instrument is designed to move.

Having thus fully described my invention,

whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by ELISHA BROAD.

Witnesses W. H. CLARKE, H. F. BLANCHARD.

